Pad for horses.



No. 820,800. PATENTED MAY 15,1906. S. A. LADD.

PAD. FOR HORSES.

APPLICATION FILED D1 .0.18. 1905.

3| u 00 Mic c Jag/e L add SEBIE A. LA DD, OF DUANE, NE'W YORK.

PAD FOR HORSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed December 18.1905. Serial No. 292,227.

To all wit/2711, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SEBIE A. LADD, a citizen of the United. States,residing at Duane, in the county of Franklin, State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pads for Horses; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to harness-pads or sweat-pads for horses;and it has for its object to provide asweat-pad that shall be thoroughlyventilated through and through, so as to absolutely prevent the collar,harnesssaddle, or other parts of the harness-trappings from heating,scalding, or otherwise injuring the horse.

The nature of the invention embodies a porous sweat-pad of peculiarstructural charactor in that the holes that are made through the padfrom side to side have the longitudinal and transverse lines ofquilting-stitches cross the same, thus retaining them in open positionand assisting to maintain the portions or squares of the collar betweenthe perforations in a soft built-up hump that inuse will operate in anappreciable degree and in a bellows-like manner to pump the air into theperforations and allow it to escape so as to keep the under side of thecollar cool and thoroughly ventilated at all times.

In collar and other harness pads'that are made for summer use theoutside and inside coverings are frequently rendered porous byperforating them; but the usually thick padding or stuffing is leftimperforate, so that the pad is quite as heating as though the coveringswere not perforated.

By my improvements, as before stated, the perforations extend throughand through the pad, and steps are provided or taken to keep them openand the pad as a whole in a spongy condition.

The accompanying drawings, which clearly and fully illustrate myimprovements, form a part of this specification and are to be referredto as such.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention.Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. The same letters ofreference designate the same parts or features, as the case may be,wherever they occur.

In carrying out my improvements I inelose between two layers ofdrill-goods a b a filling c in quantity suflicient for the case in handand of a quality known as composite. These three layers may be firstbasted together and then perforated at short intervals. For instance, ina pad designed for use in connetion with collars there may be three rowsof perforations a run longitudinally of the collar, and the transverserows may be relatively as wide apart as longitudinal rows. I then quiltthe pad with as many lines of stitches as there are rows ofperforations, making sure that the rows of quilting-stitches will crossthe perforations. This mode of operating builds up soft humps within thelines of stitches and perforations and insures the keeping open of thelatter, so as to insure the ventilation and. keeping cool of the insideof the collar, as has already been described.

At the point where the shoulder-joint comes and at other points where itmay be thought best to have the perforations thicker this may be done byworking in fancy figures for the sake of ornamentation. A star, forexample, is shown as worked in on the pad shown in Fig. 1.

Hooks g are provided at the edge of the sweat-pad for securing thelatter to the collar. What is claimed is- 1. A sweat-pad for horsescomposed of an outside and. inside layer of cloth, as drilling, and anintermediate layer of composite stuffing, said layers being perforatedthrough and through and quilted, the lines of all quiltingstitchescrossing in the perforations.

2. A sweat-pad for horses composed of suitable coverings of cloth, andan inner stuffing, said layers or plies being perforated through andthrough and finished by crossquilting, the cross-quilting lines ofstitches crossing the perforations, as described, and hooks beingconnected with the outer edges.

3. A sweat-pad for harness perforated through and through, and quiltedby lines of cross-stitches, the latter crossing in each perperforation.

In testimony whereof I alfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SEBIE A. LADD.

Witnesses:

MASON Moons, IRVING M. LADD.

